Clamp



' Feb. 1 1927.

A 1,615,948 F'. LANAUX CLAMP Filed March 22', 1926 FER/v LANA UX.

Patented Feb. 1, 1927.

FERN LANAUX, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLAMP.

Application filed March 22, 1926. Serial No. 96,442.

My invention relates to improvements in clamps and has for its object to provide a flexible, extensible and adjustable clamp particularly adapted to secure a fabric cover in place upon a table, an ironing board, over the. mouth of a container, or in like locations.

The clamp of my invention comprises a pair of claw members, each made of a single wire bent upon itself to form two inwardly projecting teeth, each formed on the end of a spring-arm, and a loop connecting and serving as a base for said spring-arms; and a flexible tape, adjustable as to length, mounted in said loops and serving to ad just-ably connect said pair of claw members.

The pair of claw members has the function of keeping the tape-connected loops substantially parallel while the teeth of the claw members engage opposing edges which are not parallel to each other, thus adapting my clamp for use upon ironing-boards and the like of tapering form; this function being incident to the resiliency of the springarms carrying said toothed terminals.

Other advantages incident to the use of my clamp will appear from the following' description.

Dra/wings.

In the drawings- Fig. 1 is a lan View of the bottom of an ironing boarc', with its cover secured in place by a set of the clamps of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same showing a side view of one of said clamps. y

Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of one of said clamps in place upon a fragment of said ironing board.

Fig. l is an enlarged perspective view olf' one of the claw members employed in said clamp.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the tape-clamp employed in adjusting the tape connecting the claw-members, taken on the line 5--o of Fig. 3.

Descm'pz'on.

The claw member A is preferably formed from a single wire bent upon itself as shown, to form. a loop 7, over-lapping cross-arms 8-8, base-arms 9-9, risers 10-10, and parallel projecting prongs l1-11.

These claw-members A are employed in pairs as shown, each pair being joined by a tape 12. preferably looped as shown and made adjustable as to length by means of the tape-clamp B.

The tape 12 may be made adjustable as to length by any suitable means.

Mode of operation.

Itis only necessary to the use of the clamp of my invention that a suflicient number be employed (as in Fig. l) to hold the covering G securely in place upon the board D. By reason of the resiliency of the arms 8-9-1() and prongs 11 of the claw-member A the prongs of each of said members A. will ad-` just themselves to the tapering sides of a board D, while maintaining the loops 7 7 of that particular clamp substantially in parallelism. as illustrated in Fig. 3.

Manipulation of the tape-clamp B as above described serves to adjust the clamp to any desired length. The tape 12 may be elastic or inelastic as preferred.

The loop 7 cross-arms 8 8, and base-arms 9--9, are in substantially the same plane, i

so that they lit flatly against the bottom face of' the ironing board or the like when in use, as shown in Fig. 2.

Various modifications of structure of the clamp as illustrated and above described may be effected without departure from my invention as described in the appended claims.

Olaiz'ms.

I claim: 1. The improvement in clamps comprising a. pair oi claw-members and a tape ot adjustable length connecting said claw-mem bers; each of said claw-members being lapping spring-arms each terminating in a a pair of risers, said loop, cross-arms and prong; and a tape of adjustable length sebase-arms being in substantially the same curing said pair of claw-members together. plane and parallel prongs projecting from 10 3. In a clamp, a olawmember formed of a said risers. 5 single Wire bent uponitslf tofornfi a loop, In" testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my over-lapping cross-arms, base-arms extendsignature. ing from said cross-arms and terminating in FERN LANAUX. 

